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Timothée Chalamet recreates one of Bob Dylan’s most famous songs and visuals with a version of “Subterranean Homesick Blues” for the upcoming biopic, A Complete Unknown.

Chalamet’s new recording of the 1965 classic is the fullest offering yet of the actor’s take on Dylan’s singular singing voice. The previously released trailer for a Complete Unknown just included snippets of his renditions of songs like “Girl from the North Country” and “Like a Rolling Stone.”

The visual, meanwhile, appears to incorporate some scenes from the upcoming biopic, plus some behind-the-scenes footage.

In 2002, it was finally all coming together for Joaquin Phoenix. He was at long last being considered a leading man after two decades of ensemble parts, and was a year removed from earning a Best Supporting Actor nomination for "Gladiator." The U.S. Army satire "Buffalo Soldiers" could have been the film to fully transform him into a full-blown, top-of-the-poster star, but it wound up getting buried for the offense of poking fun at the military in the immediate wake of 9/11 (it screened at the Toronto International Film Festival the very week of the attacks). So, it couldn't help but feel like he was more actor than M. Night Shyamalan's "Signs" needed for the role of Mel Gibson's brother.

Don't get me wrong! I'm thrilled Phoenix got the part if only for his terrified reaction to the alien video, a jump scare we get to share with him as...

Joaquin Phoenix celebrated his first Oscar win for the violent Todd Phillips movie “Joker,” which earned him his fourth Academy Award nomination.

Phoenix has been no stranger to awards circles throughout his career. He has been nominated for three other Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards (including a win for 2005’s “Walk the Line” and “Joker”) and five Screen Actors Guild Awards (including a victory for “Joker”).

Tour our photo gallery above featuring the 15 greatest film performances, ranked from worst to best. Our list includes the movies mentioned above, plus “Her,” “Inherent Vice,” “To Die For,” “Napoleon,” “Beau Is Afraid” and more.

How do you even begin to prepare to play Bob Dylan? The folk musician who changed the entire scene is at the heart of James Mangold’s new film, A Complete Unknown – and for star Timothée Chalamet, the challenge was to find a way to make the real Dylan… well, known. First came a three-and-a-half year period of learning to play guitar, getting to grips with Dylan’s songs and unique vocal style. And from there, it was all about letting go and reaching for something real beyond just a surface impression.

“Bob has a very specific, soulful voice, but what most defines it is his negotiation with his own words and the way he tells the story,” Mangold tells Empire, digging into his and Chalamet’s approach to the icon. “That essence is what Timmy and I were after more than a specific mannerism or tic, per se.” The...

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Joaquin Phoenix, a master of transformation, has captured accolades for his unforgettable performances in films like Gladiator and Joker. Known for his intense dedication to his credit, the actor has always fully immersed himself in complex characters, earning him an Academy Award. He is no stranger to accolades like Golden Globes and Oscars and has been rewarded for his emotional performances.

Born as Joaquin Rafael Bottom, the actor has a net worth of $80 million per Celebrity Net Worth. The actor’s acting career began at a young age, and he earned his breakthrough in To Die For. However, his portrayal of Commodus in Gladiator made him an international star and earned him his first Academy Award nomination.

At the age of 8, Phoenix began his acting with Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. He told Fresh Air’s Terry Gross about his first acting experience,...

Filmmakers and distributors of awards-hopefuls have until Nov. 4 to submit their category preference — drama versus musical or comedy — to the Golden Globes organization, which reserves the right to overturn any classification that it finds egregiously inaccurate.

Some of this year’s cases are inarguable — for instance, Netflix’s Emilia Pérez, in which characters spontaneously burst into song, is clearly a musical (if not a comedy), and A24’s The Brutalist, in which an immigrant faces all sorts of harrowing hurdles, is clearly a drama. There are, however, also plenty of close-calls, about which many have made assumptions, but, in most cases, not confirmed.

The Hollywood Reporter has been working the phones and can now report which way almost every contender is breaking. This intel is, of course, subject to change prior to Nov. 4, and to being overturned by the Globes thereafter — but it is current as of this writing.

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Arianne Phillips, the costume designer for “Joker: Folie à Deux,” has provided insights into her work bringing Lady Gaga’s character to life. In the upcoming musical, Gaga plays Harley Quinn, starting as an obsessed fan of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) before transforming into the iconic character. Phillips faced the challenge of expanding the visual world from the first “Joker” film while honoring Mark Bridges’ Oscar-nominated costume design.

Phillips collaborated closely with Gaga to develop the character’s look throughout the story. In early scenes, Lady Gaga’s character is shown as an “underdeveloped, infantilized fan girl” through outfits like scrubs with a floral top. Phillips said this showed how the character was “obsessed with the Joker like a teenage girl — she’s a fan girl in a way that stunts her emotional growth.”

As the relationship develops, the costumes become more sophisticated, featuring sophisticated dresses and aggressive outfits. The...

Lives of historical figures often get cinematic treatment to tell sweeping tales of real life events, and Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice captures former president Donald Trump in a key moment before the 2024 presidential election. Starring Sebastian Stan as Trump, Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and Maria Bakalova as Trump’s first wife Ivanka, the film marks the latest in a catalog of films that explore the lives of political people. From United States Presidents to their wives and First Ladies, to Supreme Court Justices to scientists and brilliant minds, nobody is off limits, especially if the stories are triumphant. Others have more tragic endings.

The 2024 Academy Awards showed just how popular a biopic can be amongst voters with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer netting Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. Actors and actresses do almost anything to become the real-life person they portray in a biopic, from working with...

A new trailer just dropped for A Complete Unknown, director James Mangold’s highly anticipated biopic about the legendary Bob Dylan starring Timothée Chalamet. The story ends around 1965, meaning that we won’t get a scene in which Chalamet bangs a tiny Ikea wrench against a microphone while wearing old age makeup.

A Complete Unknown looks like a boilerplate Hollywood music biopic, full of eye-rollingly obvious moments. And it’s nearly impossible to accept these types of formulaic music biopics, not just because Hollywood has practically run the genre into the ground at this point, but because they were so perfectly parodied in 2007’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

Mangold has admitted to enjoying Walk Hard, which was primarily a send-up of his previous music biopic effort, Walk the Line. But for some reason, he seems to be leaning into those Dewey Cox-esque elements again, rather than avoiding them.

Searchlight Pictures’ new trailer for A Complete Unknown gives us our first good look at Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash. The two-minute trailer also has Timothée Chalamet singing Bob Dylan’s “Girl from the North Country” and “Like a Rolling Stone,” and interacting with Sylvie Russo (Elle Fanning) and Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro).

In addition, the new Bob Dylan biopic trailer features Edward Norton as Pete Seeger. A Complete Unknown also stars Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Butz, and Scoot McNairy. Two-time Oscar nominee James Mangold co-wrote the screenplay and directs.

“Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A Complete Unknown follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan’s (Timothée Chalamet) meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk...

Fate has not been kind to Joaquin Phoenix in the aftermath of Joker: Folie à Deux hitting the theatres. Dismal critics review, a popularity rating that couldn’t be worse, and Box Office returns that would be a lackluster reflection of the 2019 film.

Amidst all this rubble, he might be offered a sigh of relief from an unexpected corner. Timothée Chalamet’s upcoming Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, has generated a lot of hype amongst fans, turning back the clock to the 1960s. But for Phoenix, it might turn the clock to another happy time.

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In the lead-up to the release of Joker: Folie à Deux, director Todd Philips knew what they were doing was somewhat risky. He famously said,

“Why do something if it...

Tired out by the deluge of atypical music movies? Last week we got the trailer for Robbie Williams chimp biopic Better Man, while cinemagoers will soon be greeted with Pharrell’s Lego-styled take on his own life in documentary Piece By Piece – but playing it more straight is A Complete Unknown, the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic from James Mangold, with Timothée Chalamet donning the acoustic guitar as the ‘60s folk icon. Take a look at the latest trailer here:

This latest look at the film centres more on the specific angle of the story Mangold is telling – not just Dylan’s rise through the folk scene, but exploring the fallout and cultural impact of the moment he decided to ‘go electric’, changing up his sound to considerable outcry. Plus, we hear more of Chalamet singing those iconic Dylan tunes, see images that echo legendary bits of iconography (like The...

In the A Complete Unknown trailer, Timotheé Chalamet’s Bob Dylan faces the pressure to define himself as his music career reaches stratospheric heights. “Two hundred people in that room and each one wants me to be somebody else,” Chalamet says in the trailer.

By the end of the trailer, released Tuesday, Chalamet goes electric, performing “Like a Rolling Stone” to a raucous crowd at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

A Complete Unknown follows 19-year-old Dylan’s arrival to New York in the early Sixties, the Minnesota folk singer’s sold-out...

James Mangold is no stranger to the musical biopic, having brought Johnny Cash’s story to the big screen with Walk the Line, which got Joaquin Phoenix an Academy Award nomination for that film. Now, Mangold takes on another musical icon with the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown. Searchlight Pictures has now released a comprehensive look with the new trailer, as it shows more of Timothée Chalamet‘s performance and the events of Dylan’s life that will be explored.

A Complete Unknown, which stars Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning and Monica Barbaro. The film also co-stars Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Butz and Scoot McNairy, with the studio also giving it a December 25th wide release. Given how well Chalamet’s Wonka did during the holiday season last year, the studio is likely hoping that lightning will strike twice. The date also gives is peak visibility during award season.

Timothee Chalamet’s Bob Dylan impression came into the light on Tuesday with the release of the new trailer for “A Complete Unknown,” a biopic that charts the musician’s rise and culminates in his polarizing electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

Wearing a small prosthetic nose, Chalamet takes on all of Dylan’s affectations in this new look at the film, which comes from “Walk the Line” filmmaker James Mangold. Indeed, “A Complete Unknown” has shades of Mangold’s Johnny Cash film as it also looks to chronicle the relationship between Dylan and Joan Baez, played by Monica Barbaro.

But don’t fret, unlike “Walk the Line” wherein Joaquin Phoenix sang as Cash, it looks like Chalamet is merely lip-syncing to Dylan most of the time in the Searchlight Pictures release. Either that or his performance is that impressive – or just as likely these days,...

Timothée Chalamet transforms into Bob Dylan for the music biopic of the year.

James Mangold directs Chalamet in the long-gestating “A Complete Unknown,” which captures folk singer Dylan’s rise from his late teen guitar-playing years to performing at the iconic Newport Folk Festival in 1965. “Walk the Line” helmer Mangold adapted the screenplay from Elijah Wald’s book “Dylan Goes Electric!,” which was released in 2015.

The official synopsis reads: “Set in the influential New York music scene of the early ’60s, ‘A Complete Unknown’ follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan’s (Chalamet) meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts — his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation — culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.”

The cast also includes Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash,...

Arianne Phillips is a creative visionary. She's the costume designer behind -- cue prestigious drum roll -- A Single Man, The Crow, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood..., and Walk the Line. She's helped create iconic characters. To celebrate her career, including this year's A Complete Unknown and Joker: Folie à Deux, The Newport Beach Festival and Fashion Island are honoring her with The Creative Visionary Award.

Director Todd Phillips returns with the highly anticipated sequel to his controversial 2019 Dceu adventure, Joker. The new film, Joker: Folie à Deux, brings back Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, the mentally disturbed criminal who becomes the Joker. Joining Phoenix is the iconic Lady Gaga (A Star is Born) as Harley Quinn, while Zazie Beetz reprises her role, albeit all too briefly, from the first movie. Irish actor Brendan Gleeson and Catherine Keener add gravitas to the cast.

Joker: Folie à Deux delves deeper into Arthur’s descent into madness, set against Gotham City’s criminal underworld. With a musical twist, Phoenix and Gaga share several striking performances together.

The story follows Arthur navigating life in Arkham Asylum five years after the first film’s events. His Joker persona becomes central to a legal battle where his lawyer (Keener) argues for his mental instability, while district attorney Harvey Dent seeks the death penalty.

Plot: While on trial for his life, Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) meets a fellow psychiatric patient named Lee (Lady Gaga), who is obsessed with the crimes he committed as Joker.

Review: It’s almost comical to think now, but there was a time, shortly before Todd Phillips’s Joker opened in theaters, that critics and journalists – mostly in the online sphere – were convinced the movie was “dangerous” and that screenings of the film would incite waves of violence from the audiences whose minds would surely be warped the second they saw Joker dance down the steps to Gary Glitter’s “Rock n’Roll Part 2.” That didn’t happen, of course, with audiences getting that – yes – in the end, it’s just a movie, albeit one that grossed over a billion dollars worldwide and won an Oscar for its star.

Yet, it feels like Phillips, to some extent, might have taken...

Joaquin Phoenix is all set to return to his legendary role as Arthur Fleck in Todd Philips’ Joker: Folie a Deux. The actor played the DC Comics character in 2019’s Joker and won the Oscar for Best Actor. Since then, Phoenix has worked on a few indies such as C’mon C’mon, and Beau is Afraid and headlined Ridley Scott’s Napolean.

Ever since Phoenix made his debut as a child actor, he has had a steady rise in his career. While he has faced some personal tragedies in his life, he has bounced back and become one of the most amazing performers in the present day. Here is everything about the actor’s paydays and his net worth after he began his career.

How Did Joaquin Phoenix Start His Career? A young Joaquin Phoenix in To Die For | Credits: Sony Pictures

While he is known for his more...

After coming up short on his first two Best Actor Oscar bids for “Walk the Line” and “The Master,” Joaquin Phoenix took the gold in 2020 for “Joker.” The film reaped a whopping 11 Oscar nominations and cracked the billion dollar mark at the box office. The sequel, “Joker: Folie à Deux,” which hits theaters October 4, makes Phoenix the 11th Best Actor victor to reprise his winning role in a feature film.

Only one of the first 10 fellows to pull off this double feature earned another Oscar nomination: Bing Crosby (he won for “Going My Way” in 1945 and was nominated for “The Bells of St. Mary’s” in 1946).

Those who preceded Crosby in reprising their winning roles without academy recognition are Warner Baxter, who went on to appear in both “The Cisco Kid” (1931) and “Return of the Cisco Kid” (1939), and Spencer Tracy, who starred in “Men of Boys Town” (1941).

Edward Flanagan portrayer Tracy...

Over the years, filmmakers – whether they are auteurs or not – tend to stay true to the written source materials as much as possible whenever they direct biographical films. Sometimes they even choose to take creative endeavors of adding a little bit of narrative fiction to keep the historical figure interesting. Either way, it keeps the viewer strongly interested in the biopic and the portrayal of someone that made a huge impact on history. The greatest thing about biopics is that it ranges from different genres – from crime, sports, war, music, and other unusual subgenres such as action and dramedy. However, there are two huge commonalities that the biopic genre focuses on, drama and history. Without those two genres, there would not be a story that focuses on the hardships and achievements of an individual that made their mark on society.. Filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Michael Mann,...

Joaquin Phoenix made his professional acting debut in the 1985 TV movie "Kids Don't Tell," a heady primetime drama about child victims of sexual assault. Phoenix was only 11 at the time. The following year, Phoenix first appeared in theaters in the kid-friendly drama "SpaceCamp," about teenagers and children who are accidentally launched into space. Phoenix continued to land high-profile roles with interesting directors, appearing in Ron Howard's "Parenthood" in 1989 and Gun Van Sant's "To Die For" in 1995. Phoenix soon became an indie darling, and a go-to actor for extreme, quirky, sometimes dark roles. He played a kooky thug in Oliver Stone's "U Turn," and a wise pornographer in Joel Schumacher's "8mm."

By the time he appeared in Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" in 2000, Phoenix was a household name. The role earned him the first of four (to date) Academy Award nominations. He would also be nominated for playing Johnny Cash...

Oaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck/Joker and Lady Gaga as Lee Quinzel in Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Joker: Folie À Deux,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Niko Tavernise opyright: © 2024 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. So, after you saw the first Joker movie five years ago, we’re sure the thought that immediately came to mind was, “The sequel needs to be a musical!” Right? Well, regardless of whether that was on your bingo card, that’s what director and co-writer Todd Phillips had in mind. Considering that his star, Joaquin Phoenix, had singing experience in Walk the Line (and won a Grammy Award for the film’s soundtrack), Phillips felt confident that a musical approach would work, and he then hired Lady Gaga to co-star as Harley Quinn. When Gaga spoke about the film at the Venice Film Festival, she talked about how the film is definitely music-driven,...

Todd Phillips’ Joker has always thrived in chaos, and Folie à Deux brings that chaos to colorful, cacophonous new heights. From the gleefully demented opening number—which sees the Clown Prince of Crime cavorting through a bygone Hollywood depicted with a lust for violence unlike anything Disney ever dreamed up—it’s clear Phillips has no interest in recreating the realist grit of his breakthrough. Rather, he graffiti-tags Scorsese’s grim Gotham with pop psychedelia, daring viewers to extract meaning from the mayhem.

What meaning there is comes, as ever, through the cracked lens of Arthur Fleck. Incarcerated at Arkham Asylum since the so-called “Gotham Uprising,” Fleck has retreated into muted catatonia—until encountering Harleen Quinzel, an “enthusiast” who sees in him not a man but an icon. Their Folie à Deux blossoms into deranged duets that stage unnerving exposure therapy through Kander and Ebb’s barbed standards.

If this new Joker explores,...

Legendary musicians Pharrell Williams and Robbie Williams — unrelated despite their shared surname — are each choosing to tell their life stories through unconventional mediums.

Pharrell’s story is brought to life in Focus Features’ “Piece by Piece,” directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville, known for his documentary “20 Feet from Stardom.” The film uses Lego bricks to depict Pharrell’s early life, focusing on his roots in Virginia Beach and his rise to fame as one half of the hip-hop and R&b production duo The Neptunes.

Pharrell was on the ground in Colorado for the Patron’s Brunch on Friday morning, mingling with high-profile guests, including some AMPAS voters. “I’m so excited to be at a festival that doesn’t show many animated movies, but they chose mine,” he told Variety.

Following the press orientation at the Werner Herzog Theatre, it was announced that “Piece by Piece” would be...

After being delayed several times, Sony's latest "Spider-Man" spin-off film "Kraven the Hunter" is hitting theaters later this year. The studio only barely released a brand-new red-band trailer for the Marvel Comics adaptation, which highlights the R-rated action to come. It very much seems like a violent, no-holds-barred take on the character, who is being played by "Bullet Train" and "The Fall Guy" star Aaron Taylor-Johnson. But while the films seemingly couldn't be more different, broadly speaking, "Kraven" does share at least one thing in common with 2017's "Logan" beyond the R rating.

The latest trailer for "Kraven" makes use of Johnny Cash's "The Man Comes Around." It's become pretty common for big movies to take once-popular songs and give them a bit of a remix to add a certain vibe to their trailers. Jordan Peele's "Us" famously used a version of Luniz's "I Got 5 On it,...

James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown stars Timothée Chalamet, and will be arriving on Christmas Day in the US.

When it was revealed last month (alongside a trailer for the upcoming film) that James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown would be arriving in cinemas in 2024, a few eyebrows went up. The project began filming back in March (according to IMDb) and wrapped near the end of June.

Still, Mangold can be a quick worker when it comes to the post-production stage of filmmaking, depending on the film of course. Whilst Le Mans ’66 took a year to make it through the editing room, his other musical biopic – 2005’s Walk The Line – released in cinemas six months after entering the post-production phase and it looks like the filmmaker will be doing the same again here.

A Christmas Day release has been set for A Complete Unknown in the US,...

James Mangold is no stranger to the musical biopic, having brought Johnny Cash’s story to the big screen with Walk the Line, which got Joaquin Phoenix an Academy Award nomination for that film. Now, Mangold takes on another musical icon with the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown. There has been a more abstract attempt at telling Dylan’s story with Todd Haynes’ 2007 film I’m Not There, which featured an all-star cast and multiple actors playing Bob Dylan in a different phase of his life with a unique interpretation, including Cate Blanchett sporting his iconic look. Searchlight Pictures has dropped the trailer for A Complete Unknown, which stars Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning and Monica Barbaro. The film also co-stars Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Butz and Scoot McNairy, with the studio also giving it a December 25th wide release. Given how well Chalamet’s Wonka did...

James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown will hit theaters on December 25.

The movie, which stars Timothée Chalamet as Dylan, follows the singer’s rise from Minnesota to West Village balladeer to revolutionary folk singer. As he forms his most intimate relationships during his rise to fame, he grows restless with the folk movement and, refusing to be defined, makes a controversial choice that culturally reverberates worldwide. Mangold co-wrote the script with Jay Cocks.

Will this movie hit the fall film festival troika? We’re hearing no — it’s not ready yet. Good things come to those who wait.

Mangold knows how to make a mass-appealing biopic about a musical legend; his 2005 feature Walk the Line, about Johnny Cash and June Carter, grossed close to $120 million stateside, more that $186M worldwide, and notched a Best Actress Oscar win for Reese Witherspoon after five Oscar noms including Best Actor for Joaquin Phoenix.

“A Complete Unknown,” the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet as the famed musician, will land in theaters on Christmas Day. It’s scheduled to hit the big screen on Dec. 25.

On its current release date, “A Compete Unknown” will premiere on the same day as Robert Eggers’ remake of “Nosferatu” and a week after Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King.”

“Walk the Line” filmmaker James Mangold directed “A Complete Unknown,” which chronicles the early life and times of Dylan. Set in New York in the early 1960s, the film begins as the enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in Greenwich Village and ignites an “upheaval in the folk community” when, in 1965, he straps on an electric guitar. The first trailer, which debuted in July, gives a glimpse at Chalamet (who does his own singing) performing a rousing rendition of “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” and stopping by Dylan...

Searchlight Pictures has set a December 25 release right in the awards season corridor for its Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown starring Timothée Chalamet as the iconic American singer-songwriter.

James Mangold directed the feature, which charts Dylan’s rise after he arrives as a 19-year-old in New York’s West Village in the early 1960s and proceeds to shake up the music world.

It is understood that Chalamet does his own singing, as he did in last year’s holiday release Wonka.

The cast includes Elle Fanning, Boyd Holbrook, Edward Norton and Scoot McNairy, and producers are Fred Berger, Alex Heineman,...

Now a little more is known about “A Complete Unknown.”

Audiences will get to witness Timothée Chalamet’s transformation into Bob Dylan on December 25 for director/co-writer James Mangold’s music biopic. The long-gestating feature had a stop-start production amid the pandemic, but now will debut in theaters just in time for awards buzz and festival play. While the Venice, TIFF, and NYFF lineups have been announced, there is no word yet where “A Complete Unknown” will have its world premiere. As of now, the film is not on any of the festival circuit, but it could still be a surprise centerpiece debut for a core festival.

“A Complete Unknown” is a Searchlight release.

The film is set in New York during the early 1960s. The official synopsis reads: “Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in the West...

The esteemed filmmaker behind the Johnny Cash bio-musical “Walk the Line” and superhero drama “Logan,” James Mangold has done it all. He’s torn up the race track with “Ford v Ferrari,” been the only director other than Steven Spielberg to take the helm of an “Indiana Jones” film with last year’s “Dial of Destiny,” and later this year, he’ll debut his Bob Dylan drama starring Timotheé Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown.” Before he began his career as a filmmaker, he learned from legends like Alexander Mackendrick (“The Sweet Smell of Success”) and Milos Forman (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”).

In a recent response post on X, Mangold explained his creative process and how it was passed down from these “masters,” as well as gathered from watching the work of others.

“I have learned this way of working from watching masters I admire. Some masters have been my teachers in person.

The latest Marvel movie event, Deadpool & Wolverine, is making bank at the box office despite the R-Rating. The movie is seen by many as a bookend to the nearly 25 years of X-Men films that began at 20th Century Fox back in July of 2000. The X-Men series is considered the predecessor to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and this last installment is considered one of the best Marvel movies in years.

One of the biggest parts of Deadpool & Wolverine has to do with the multiverse as well as the history of many past Marvel movies. We see several character returns that audiences loved. But there’s one person who doesn’t seem all that happy, and that person is James Mangold.

James Mangold is perhaps best known for helming the 2017 X-Men drama Logan, a film that was seen as the perfect farewell to Hugh Jackman’s legacy as the uncanny hero.

“A Complete Unknown” debuted its trailer on July 24, and it’s already paying dividends for star Timothee Chalamet in our Oscar odds for Best Actor. As of this writing he’s within striking distance of a nomination. Make or update your forecasts now here in our predictions center.

“A Complete Unknown” is that classic Oscars genre: the music biopic. It focuses on Bob Dylan (played by Chalamet) in the early years of his career. Playing famous musicians has resulted in Oscars for multiple actors, including Jamie Foxx (Ray Charles in “Ray”), Reese Witherspoon (June Carter in “Walk the Line”) and Renee Zellweger (Judy Garland in “Judy”). Jeff Bridges even won Best Actor for playing a fictional musician in “Crazy Heart.”

The most recent music men to earn Best Actor nominations were Andrew Garfield, Austin Butler (Elvis Presley in “Elvis”) and Bradley Cooper (Leonard Bernstein in “Maestro”). And the most recent...

Joaquin Phoenix may not be a natural singer — he wasn’t born that way — but Lady Gaga helped him hit the right notes in “Joker: Folie á Deux.” Also, Phoenix’s turn playing (and singing) Johnny Cash in “Walk the Line” (2005) was at least a good warm up.

“Joker 2,” which features musical sequences, stars Phoenix as Arthur Fleck Aka the Joker, who is now being treated by psychiatrist Harley Quinn at Arkham Asylum.

Phoenix told Empire magazine that Gaga played more than just Quinn for “Folie á Deux” — she also played his vocal coach.

“I do seem to remember her spitting up coffee the first time I sang, so that felt good, that was exciting, and made me feel confident,” Phoenix joked. “Gaga was always very encouraging of just, ‘Go with what you feel, it’s fine.'”

He continued, “For somebody who’s not a performer in that way,...

We’re currently in the midst of the Multiverse Saga in the MCU, and many fans are already weary of it. To a large portion of the audience, the Multiverse concept equates to bland storytelling, as it removes all stakes and risks. Complex character development can be easily dismissed as “a variant.”

Any character’s death can be undone, and every plot hole can be explained away as “a different timeline.”

‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ features a scene that pokes fun at the Multiverse concept, even though the film itself attempts to capitalize on it. I’ll avoid spoilers, so I won’t go into details.

Before the release of ‘Deadpool and Wolverine,’ it was known that Feige was firmly against Jackman returning as Wolverine, given the way his character’s arc concluded in ‘Logan.’ However, the Multiverse concept conveniently allowed for his return—as a variant.

To add to this,...

We’re currently in the middle of Multiverse Saga in the MCU, and fans are already sick of it. For a large number of fans, the concept of the Multiverse is equal to bland storytelling since all stakes and risks are removed. Everything that requires complex character development can simply be written off as ” a variant.”

Any character’s death can be undone, and every pothole can simply be written off as “a different timeline.”

‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ has one specific scene during which it mocks the Multiverse concept, even though ironically the movie also tried to cash in on it, but I’m trying to avoid spoilers for you guys so I’m not going to elaborate on it further.

In any case, long before ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ was released we’ve learned that Feige was absolutely against Jackman returning to the role of Wolverine, due to the way...

The trailer just dropped for A Complete Unknown, Hollywood’s latest attempt to turn your parents’ record collection into box-office gold. The upcoming film stars Timothée Chalamet as the legendary Bob Dylan, chronicling the young troubadour’s early years as he bums around the ‘60s New York folk circuit and (spoiler alert?) eventually freaks everybody out by playing an electric guitar.

Pfft, call us when there’s a movie about the making of Dylan’s Christmas album.

A Complete Unknown marks a return to the music biopic genre for director James Mangold, who previously helmed the Oscar-winning Walk the Line, which starred Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash, Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash and Robert Patrick as the T-1000, after he killed Johnny Cash’s father and took his place.

While Walk the Line was a critical and financial success, it was also painfully formulaic. And its structural triteness was...

Despite having been a part of some of the biggest franchises ever — “X-Men,” “Indiana Jones,” and soon, “Star Wars” — James Mangold is making his disdain for “multi-movie universe-building” known.

The “A Complete Unknown” writer/director told Rolling Stone that he doesn’t “do multiverses” when it comes to his own filmography. Mangold was asked if he considered re-casting Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” as Mangold directed Phoenix as the singer in 2005 Oscar-winning film “Walk the Line.”

“I don’t do multiverses,” Mangold said. “But beyond that Johnny Cash was like, 30 [during the ‘A Complete Unknown’ era]. I love Joaquin, but he’s not 30, or whatever Johnny was at this moment.”

Instead, Mangold reunites with his “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” actor Boyd Holbrook, who will portray Cash alongside Timothée Chalamet’s Dylan.

In addition to helming the fifth “Indiana Jones” film, Mangold has...

James Mangold hates multi-verse movies because he thinks they're "the enemy of storytelling".The 60-year-old director has helmed Marvel blockbusters like 'The Wolverine' and 'Logan' but isn't looking to bring this cross-over idea over to his upcoming Bob Dylan biopic 'A Complete Unknown', which stars Timothee Chalamet as the music legend.Asked if Chalamet's Dylan could cross paths with Joaquin Phoenix's Johnny Cash from his 2006 flick 'Walk the Line', Mangold told Rolling Stone magazine: "I don’t do multiverses. But beyond that, Johnny Cash was like, 30. I love Joaquin, but he’s not 30, or whatever Johnny was at this moment. They’re both young people in that moment in life. "It’s weird that I’ve even worked in the world of I.P. entertainment, because I don’t like multi-movie universe-building. I think it’s the enemy of storytelling. The death of storytelling.

James Mangold has expressed that he’s clearly not a fan of cinematic multiverses.

While the filmmaker has helmed several sequels, including Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), Logan (2017) and The Wolverine (2013), he likely won’t be looking to direct an installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is known for its “multi-movie universe-building.”

“I don’t do multiverses,” Mangold recently told Rolling Stone when asked if audiences could expect to see Joaquin Phoenix’s Johnny Cash return in the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet. Mangold previously directed Phoenix’s Oscar-nominated performance in 2005’s Walk the Line.

The director confirmed that fans won’t see any crossovers in A Complete Unknown, as Boyd Holbrook portrays Johnny Cash in the film.

“I love Joaquin, but he’s not 30, or whatever Johnny was at this moment. They’re both young people in that moment in life,” Mangold explained. “It...

James Mangold said in an interview with Rolling Stone that he is not a fan of “multi-movie universe-building,” so consider him probably not interested in directing an entry of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The director is no stranger to helming sequels as the filmmaker behind “The Wolverine,” “Logan” and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” although he affirms he’s always approached his franchise work as standalone entries.

“I don’t do multiverses,” Mangold said when the topic of Johnny Cash appearing in his upcoming Bob Dylan movie “A Complete Unknown” came up. Mangold directed Joaquin Phoenix to an Oscar nomination as Cash in 2005’s “Walk the Line.” The director’s Bob Dylan biopic stars Timothee Chalamet as the folk icon. Some hoped Phoenix would pop up as Cash in “A Complete Unknown,” although Mangold did not want any crossovers between the music biopics and cast his “Indiana Jones 5...

When it was announced that Timothée Chalamet will be starring in A Complete Unknown, fans were already half sold about the project. It isn’t everyday that you get to see a biopic about the Like a Rolling Stone singer. Add that to the acting prowess of the Call Me By Your Name star, and you’re set to have a combination that is set to enthrall fans. But fans should not ignore another powerhouse who is also behind the making of the movie – James Mangold. To movie connieseurs, the name of the Logan director is enough proof of how good the movie ought to be.

A Complete Unknown is about to take fans on a journey for the ages

Timothée Chalamet steals the show as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown l Image by Nine Stars, licensed under Cc By 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

With the trailer of A Complete Unknown officially out,...

A Complete Unknown, from Walk the Line director James Mangold, will show the musician’s rise to worldwide fame in early 60s New York City

The first trailer for A Complete Unknown shows Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in the much-anticipated biopic.

The Dune and Call Me by Your Name star has transformed into the legendary musician for an awards-aiming drama to be released in the US in December and in the UK in January. It comes from the film-maker James Mangold, who previously directed the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line.

Timothée Chalamet embodies the Nobel Prize-winning legend in James Mangold’s 60s biopic. Check out the A Complete Unknown trailer below.

It’s been no secret that Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold have been working on a Bob Dylan biopic for what feels like a lifetime, so it’s refreshing to discover that A Complete Unknown will be arriving in cinemas sooner than we originally thought.

With the year quickly passing by with no word on the film, the safe bet was to assume Searchlight would go for a release sometime in 2025. According to the release alongside the film’s first trailer today though, it’s opening in the US this December – just in time for young Chalamet to get on his awards campaign.

Check out the A Complete Unknown trailer below.

Narrated by a thoroughly bald-capped Ed Norton as folk singer Pete Seeger, the trailer finds a young Dylan...

Searchlight Pictures has released the official teaser trailer for A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan. The film, set in the influential New York music scene of the early ’60s, will be released in theaters this December.

A Complete Unknown follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan’s meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

The movie was directed by James Mangold, whose credits include Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Ford v Ferrari, Logan, The Wolverine, 3:10 to Yuma, Walk the Line, Identity, Girl, Interrupted, and Cop Land.

The film stars Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Norbert Leo Butz, Dan Fogler, and Scoot McNairy.

Mangold directed the film from a screenplay he wrote with Jay Cocks.

How many roads must the Lisan al-Gaib (sand)walk down, before you can call him a man? The answer, my friend, is in the trailer for A Complete Unknown – the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic from James Mangold, starring none other than Timothée Chalamet as the legendary folk artist. This is a film that’s been brewing in Hollywood for many years now, and after hanging up the Indiana Jones whip post-Dial Of Destiny, Mangold has finally made it happen – his first music biopic since his excellent Johnny Cash film, Walk The Line. This first teaser doesn’t show a huge amount, but unveils Chalamet’s take on Dylan, shows off lots of ‘60s New York, and also features Chalamet singing ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’. Check it out here:

We’ve had plenty of music biopics in recent years – but this one feels particularly exciting, not only for Chalamet taking on the central role,...

Before director James Mangold began production on his Bob Dylan movie, A Complete Unknown, the subject of the film asked him a pointed question. “The first time I sat down with him,” Mangold says, “Bob said, ‘What’s this movie about, Jim?’ I said, ‘It’s about a guy who’s choking to death in Minnesota, and leaves behind all his friends and family and reinvents himself in a brand new place, makes new friends, builds a new family, becomes phenomenally successful, starts to choke to death again — and runs away.